Agerpoint Awarded as Technology Pioneer by World Economic Forum
Research Triangle, NC, USA, 10 May 2022 – Agerpoint, a North Carolina-based deep technology company, was selected among hundreds of candidates as one of the World Economic Forum’s “Technology Pioneers”. Agerpoint develops technologies to digitize, analyze and comprehend plants, crops and forests. The company’s software accepts data from multiple sources, organizes spatial data, models and insights to create plant digital twins. Data streams are used by growers, researchers, conservationists and enterprises to replace manual measurements to more accurately estimate yield, identify disease and stressors, calculate carbon sequestration potential and monitor plant health.
The World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers are early to growth-stage companies from around the world that are involved in the use of new technologies and innovation that are poised to have a significant impact on business and society.
With their selection as Technology Pioneer, CEO Kevin Lang of Agerpoint will be invited to participate at World Economic Forum activities, events and discussions throughout the year. Agerpoint will also contribute to Forum initiatives over the next two years, working with global leaders to help address key industry and societal issues.
“We’re excited to welcome Agerpoint to our 2022 cohort of Technology Pioneers,” says Saemoon Yoon, Community Lead, Technology Pioneers, World Economic Forum. “Agerpoint and its fellow pioneers are at the forefront of industries that are critical to solving some of our world’s most complex issues today. We look forward to their contribution to the World Economic Forum in its commitment to improving the state of the world.”
“Our team is honored to be acknowledged as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum”, said Agerpoint CEO Kevin Lang. “It is confirmation that our technology is advancing solutions to pressing challenges facing our planet related to a sustainable food supply and climate action. We look forward to contributing to the Forum dialogues on these topics.”
For the first time, over one-third of selected Technology Pioneer firms are led by women, well above the industry average. The firms also come from regions all around the world, creating a truly global community. This year’s cohort includes start-ups from 30 countries, with Vietnam, Rwanda and Czech Republic represented for the first time.
The diversity of these companies extends to their innovations as well. This year’s Tech Pioneer firms are shaping the future by advancing technologies such as AI, IoT, robotics, blockchain, biotechnology and many more. The full list of Technology Pioneers can be found here.
Technology Pioneers have been selected based on the community’s selection criteria, which includes innovation, impact and leadership as well as the company’s relevance with the World Economic Forum’s Platforms.
All info on this year’s Technology Pioneers can be found here: http://wef.ch/techpioneers22
More information on past winners, information on the community and the application link can be found here.
About Agerpoint: Agerpoint is pioneering development of a spatial data platform for agriculture and climate insights powered by scalable terrestrial data capture and precise automated plant-level analytics.
Through a combination of artificial intelligence, high performance computing, computer vision and advanced analytics, the Agerpoint platform fuses together sensor data from mobile devices, terrestrial vehicles, drones and satellites with other information and human observations to create a highly precise, quantifiable and interactive digital record to enable insights across agriculture, forestry, government and conservation organizations.
Agerpoint's Know Your Carbon™ serves to provide credibility and transparency to carbon credits by leveraging Agerpoint’s unique ability to create highly accurate 3D plant models and efficiently extract physical measurements and health information using automation and AI.
Agerpoint’s mission is to improve quality of life for the planet’s inhabitants and mitigate climate change by enabling a transformational shift in how plants, crops and forests are measured and monitored. The company is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina at the Alexandria Center for AgTech - the country's first and only integrated multi-tenant, amenity-rich agtech R&D and greenhouse site.
Learn more about Agerpoint at www.agerpoint.com.
About World Economic Forum: The World Economic Forum, committed to improving the state of the world, is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. (www.weforum.org).
About the Technology Pioneers:
The World Economic Forum believes that innovation is critical to the future well-being of society and to driving economic growth. Launched in 2000, the Technology Pioneer community is composed of early to growth-stage companies from around the world that are involved in the design, development and deployment of new technologies and innovations, and are poised to have a significant impact on business and society.
The World Economic Forum provides the Technology Pioneers community with a platform to engage with the public- and private-sector leaders and to contribute new solutions to overcome the current crisis and build future resiliency.